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Ministers are to signal this week that they are prepared to bust the 1% pay cap for police and prison officers, as a first step towards recognising the concerns of cash-strapped workers across the public sector.

Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey has criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s comments opposing a “shoot-to-kill” policy against terrorists and warned him that he cannot say the first thing that comes into his head.

David Cameron has been accused by union leaders of being a "Bullingdon bully" after he vowed that the Conservative election manifesto would tighten the screw on strike laws in response to what he regards as Thursday's illegitimate mass walkout of up to 1 million public-sector workers.

The leader of the UK's largest public sector union has accused Labour of "avoiding all the big issues" and said the party will have "no hope" at the general election unless it adopts much stronger anti-austerity policies.

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Ministers are to signal this week that they are prepared to bust the 1% pay cap for police and prison officers, as a first step towards recognising the concerns of cash-strapped workers across the public sector.

Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey has criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s comments opposing a “shoot-to-kill” policy against terrorists and warned him that he cannot say the first thing that comes into his head.